Following the solo presentations of established and upcoming artists,
Kunsthalle Athena presents this summer Katerina Kana, Thanos Kyriakides
(BLIND ADAM) and Petros Touloudis in an exhibition under the title "This
Must Be the Place." Three artists, who insist on living and working in
Athens at this difficult time, meet up in Kunsthalle Athena on a
peculiar co-existence that investigates the dynamic of the artistic
spirit and production under all kind of severe economic and existential
circumstances.
Kunsthalle Athena chooses to focus once more on Greek artists, this
time though, having a non-specific theme for the main show, since
everyday life has become so hectic, that it cannot be expressed yet by
verbal terms and meanings.

The artists who present their work in "This Must Be the Place" are
working on the verge of form and image. They seem to have a prismatic
comprehension of reality and thus create a body of work that is less a
documentation than a subjective gesture or a bold sketch of life, in
this given moment.
Escaping the square logic of stereotypes, the photographic collages of
Katerina Kana move in the interstice of different ideologies and emerge
as discreetly iconoclastic. Common spaces, like beaches or urban
surfaces, are subjected to an unprecedented view. Through a fragmentary
viewpoint, Katerina Kana gives room for a vivid conceptual twist.

Thanos Kyriakides (BLIND ADAM) intertwines by hand woollen threads into
a structure made of multiple knots. His work, resembling at times
sculptures, skeletons or even ghosts, is arranged in a composition that
recalls concepts such as Spirituality and Memory.
The sober drama revealed by Petros Touloudis's sui generis
installations and constructions matches the subtle self-irony reflected
by his videos. An intensive investigation of the connections between
different artistic mediums gives his work an attribute of poetic gesture
and political reflection on place and historicity.

Works by Sotiris Bakagiannis, Angelo Plessas, Socratis Socratous and
Maria Tzanakou accompany the exhibition. Meanwhile, the parallel
programme will consist of a series of events entitled Political
Speeches, a series of artistic performances based on propaganda
tradition, which will intend to create a public conversation and
interaction with the audience.
- See more at: http://www-en.elculture.gr/exhibitions/must-be-the-place-2013-578894#sthash.eTkF1H7R.dpuf